Cricket Irish Tour: Eoin Morgan scored the first 71 of what will surely turn out to be a mountain of international runs yesterday, but the young man's spotlight was grabbed by Paul Mooney as Ireland beat the Club Cricket Conference XI at Shenley to complete a clean sweep of their four-match tour of England.

A day after becoming, by more than six months, the youngest Ireland cap, Morgan played with a maturity well beyond his 16 years. He batted at his own tempo, stroked the ball into the gaps on both sides of the wicket, and had found the boundary nine times when he was run out for the second day running - or rather not running.

This time it was Peter Gillespie who discovered what every parent knows: it's nigh impossible to get a teenager moving in the morning. Morgan played the ball to leg and was again caught on his heels and well beaten as he scrambled for safety at the bowler's end.

To be fair to the youngster, it was another bad call by a senior colleague and robbed him of the chance to become Ireland's youngest centurion.

Not to worry, he will become Ireland's youngest nearly-everything over the next couple of years.

Nothing much rattles Gillespie, though, and he continued smoothly to 48 before he was bowled attempting to make room to cut in the 46th over. At that point Ireland were 215 for seven and by no means in control of the game.

All that changed in the next 28 deliveries as Mooney, who had begun scratchily, smoothly moved into top gear and produced one of the best cameos by an Irish player in recent years.

Occasionally opening his shoulders, but more often than not using the pace of the ball to send it into the gaps behind the wicket, he scorched the parched outfield with 10 boundaries on his way to 66 not out from only 44 balls.

Captain Jason Molins, nursing a sore groin, weighed in with some meaty blows and the eighth-wicket pair added a decisive 51.

Mooney then took two wickets in his opening spell, one athletically held by Morgan at cover, and Boyd Rankin impressed at least two watching county coaches by taking two wickets in as many balls - his first for Ireland.

A fifth wicket stand of 71 did for a time threaten Ireland's stranglehold, but with the off-spinners Andy White and Kyle McCallan taking three wickets each the game ended in time for Morgan and man-of-the-match Mooney to take tea before flying home to play for North County against Railway Union in today's Royal Liver Cup final.